1 discussion and reply PLUS rough draft

FIRST : For discussion and reply( DUE IN 8hrs), I will send you my account for relevant resources. DETAILS BELOW:

Please remember that there are a couple of steps to the discussion. The first step is your response, the next is responding to another student. This allows you to see another student’s perspective, which is extremely helpful for considering angles to a topic/discussion that you may have missed.

You initial post is due by the end of the day on Thursday, but your response is due by the end of the day on Friday!

Part One: Immigration

In at least 100 words, respond to the following prompt. First, consider the ideas of the melting pot vs. the salad bowl. What do you think of these approaches to understanding immigration? What do you think the United States is more like and why? Second, discuss how the information covered this week intersects with our conversations on race and ethnicity. Please take lecture, external videos, and relevant readings into account in your answer.

Part Two: Transitions and Synthesis

You can find the resources for this portion of the discussion in the Week 8 Navigation. Please refer to the PowerPoint slides on transitions and synthesis. And for quick access, though it is available in the Navigation, here is the video talking about this exercise:

Your job here is to combine different pieces of information. Look for points of agreement and disagreement between sources of information and their discussions. How would you transition between ideas (e.g., quickly link them together with words or sentences)? How would you synthesize information (e.g., draw connections between ideas, rather than summarizing each piece of information one by one)?

Here are the examples from the slides (but make sure to watch the video and look through the slides first!):

1) Transition Exercises

Video games can serve as a means of relaxation for players (citations). Video games often cause stress for a variety of reasons.

Approximately 50% of video game players are women (ESA, 2016). More men play first-person shooter games (Yee, 2017). More women than expected play titles like Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Dragon Age: Inquisition (Yee, 2017).

*Between paragraphs, you need to link broader ideas together. For example…
Defining Success
[Paragraph that would have a better concluding sentence than this, but this is just an example…] Gender does not influence video game players’ ideas about success.
Defining Skill
Gender influences the way that players see skill.

2) Synthesis Exercises

• Example One [Made Up Examples/Quotes]:

  “The majority of respondents preferred to have a variety of options for breakfast” (Jones, 2010).

  “For many Americans, income can be a major deciding factor in whether or not they have breakfast” (Rodriguez, 2014).

  “One possible diet is intermittent fasting, which leads to many people skipping breakfast to lose weight” (Carter, 2017).

• Example Two [Real information]:

  Women make up approximately 50% of the gaming audience (Entertainment Software Association [ESA], 2016).

  People tend to associate computers, technology, and video games with boys and men (Boellstorff, 2008; Kuzenkoff & Rose, 2012; Salter & Blodgett, 2012; Shaw, 2014; Taylor, 2006; Thornham, 2011).

  Women have been found to spend more time and money on video games (Williams, 2014; Williams et al., 2009; Yee 2008).

  Women have been found to spend less time on video games, focusing on other obligations instead (Lucas & Sherry, 2004;Taylor, 2006; Winn & Heeter, 2009).

Part Three

Make sure to respond to another student!

SECOND: rough draft ( Due in 30 hrs)

Format

All paper assignments should use 1-inch margins and 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri font. Assignments should be doubled-spaced. For instances where you need to cite, use APA formatting for your citations.

For APA formatting, please follow the guidelines from your APA Practice, your APA resource, and make sure to include the hanging indent!

Instructions

Your rough draft should be a close-to-complete version of your final paper. The more you have done for your rough draft, the better your feedback will be for the final product. Keep this in mind when you work on and submit this assignment.

This assignment should be at least six- to eight-pages in length.

For the rough draft, you should include:

• an early version of your introduction
• a literature review (you may want to check this Literature Review Reminder)
• a conclusion
• a bibliography

Optionally, you can include an abstract, but we will focus on that for the final paper.

As with the final paper, the introduction should set up a history/background of the topic, which can include a discussion of the impact of the topic (who/what does it affect) and a broad discussion of social science methods. You should also introduce the three major themes that you will be discussing in the literature review. For your conclusion, recap your overall discussion and the major points of the literature review. What does this tell us about your topic overall? How does the information fit together to portray the state of American culture? Reestablish the impact of the topic. Also cover any future directions that research should move in. Are there unanswered questions? Unstudied populations?

Avoid using first person. Do not say, “I want to discuss,” or similar things. Focus on the topic and the themes, not you or your experiences.

• As an example, instead of saying, “I want to explore how gender, race, and sexuality influence inequality,” you could say something like, “Inequality is influenced by a wide range of factors, including gender, race, and sexuality.”
  • This would be a thesis statement to set up the rest of the paper from your introduction

You should have at least eight to ten academic sources in your rough draft, though you can have more than ten.

What kind of sources can be used where:

• Introduction:
  • Course readings
  • Lecture
  • Non-peer-reviewed materials
  • Peer reviewed articles
• Literature Review
  • Peer-reviewed, academic articles (here are some tips for double checking: https://www.lib.uci.edu/find-article)
    • It is best if these are published since 2010, but you can use articles published since 2005.
  • Lecture (I base lectured on peer-reviewed materials, so if you want to cite the lecture, that’s okay)
• Conclusion
  • Course readings
  • Lecture
  • Non-peer-reviewed materials
  • Peer reviewed articles

I will give you the bibliographic citations for the lectures soon, so you can use a placeholder for lectures in the rough draft (e.g., the format can be off). Please double check the rest of your APA!